Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11

[Lieu3C4]

It would seem a quite important document for any Western, let alone cosmopolitan, citizen to be aware of, this book. That Al Qaeda is so small is amazing; that Islamic peoples enjoy a more complete awareness of the international political milieu than Pentagon strategists is not so amazing; that the book seems hard, as yet, to get hold of, could be viewed either way.

[UnitedUmmahinshAllah]

BLA BLA!

[jihadgangster]

he was killed because journalists r pigs and shouldnt talk about taliban. allahuakbar.

[notthere83]

well... the fact that US aggression helps al qaeda is nothing surprising to any thinking person. and anybody reading chomsky knows that even the US government (despite their masquerade that is talked about here too) knew about it. in "hopes and prospects" he cites multiple studies and statements in hearings from the US government where people decidedly warn against the increase in terrorist threat. but again and again, economic interests were more important than peace and security...

[UNIVERSITYHI]

@notthere83 I think Chomsky is an aparatchick

[notthere83]

@UNIVERSITYHI well, you are certainly entitled to your opinion. i recommend you keep thinking and adhere to the good old proverb "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

it is "apparatchik", by the way.

[UNIVERSITYHI]

@notthere83 We do have a controlled opposition in this country. Google: The Mighty Wurlitzer or Operation Mockingbird, or MK Ultra (we paid Canadians in a court case for that one). Just because you don't agree with me does not make me a fool. That is a ad hominem attack. Do you really think that Weather Underground people like Ayers and Dorhn would cozy up to a right of center Democrat like Obama in the real world or did they just go soft?

[UNIVERSITYHI]

@notthere83 There is no left in this country, you have to be able to see that. It is obvious that two centrists parties, whose centers have shifted to the right long ago, could possible represent over 350,000,000 (three hundred and fifty million) people. It is all Truman Show.

[notthere83]

@UNIVERSITYHI how funny, just an hour ago, i got myself the truman show and will watch it later on... and only this week, i worked on something for a tv show where mk ultra was mentioned.

anyway... the point that you just made is one that chomsky also makes repeatedly. also regarding the controlled opposition. and having a different opinion does not make you a fool, no. but just throwing a slur out there with no arguments to back it up and unable to even spell it right makes you look like one.

[UNIVERSITYHI]

@notthere83 Orthographic mistakes have absolutely nothing to do with basal intelligence, especially when you just spilled diet coke on your keyboard. Even Einstein made mistakes. The fact that Chomsky will not touch the Kennedy assassination or the physical events of 9/11 is highly suspect in terms of his legitimacy. He shrouds himself in "big picture" sorts of dialectic which makes it impossible to pin him down on any facts.

[notthere83]

@UNIVERSITYHI it is the combination with the unsubstantiated slur that forms the picture. would you have written an extensive argument and that would have been the only misspelled word, it wouldn't have mattered. diet coke is also an odd choice of beverage for a critically thinking person.

[notthere83]

@UNIVERSITYHI as for chomsky... no it is not suspect. there are very simple and plausible reasons why people abandon lost causes or don't entertain conspiracy theories. saying he would shroud himself in "big picture" makes me think you have either not read or listened to a lot he has said/written or you are just another typical 911-truther focusing so much on this one issue that everybody not agreeing with you on that is automatically a co-conspirator.

[zoticus1]

the whole premise of 9/11 was taken whole cloth from a comic book, thus if one believes the story is more gullible than a child.

TRNN you guys are perpetuating a LIE!

They are showing true colors these days.

[KevJK1]

Mr Jay, this wonderfully insightful "inside information", appears to require the following belief on the part of the viewer:

1. the US govt. did not realise what it was getting into in Afghanistan

2. Osama bin Laden blew up the World Trade Centre

3. Al- Qaeda is not a CIA/NSA/Mossad created and run entity

Fox news would have us believe all three.

[Gramra]

@KevJK1 Going from your belief that the Mossad is some omnipotent, sadistic, false-flagging terrorist entity, I hope they read that comment, hunt you down and ram a pick axe through your scrotum.

[911truthncDotOrg]

Saleem Shahzad is the clown claiming the recent death of Bin Laden was real!

His book has GOT to be more slick propaganda, hence the reason for TheREALNews!

Saleem Shahzad RIP.

[ScottishAtheist]

@911truthncDotOrg Ah look, the token douche Truther whenever there's a story about 9/11.

Stories containing reality must sound very painful and odd to your ears. Imagine actually creating a youtube account that declares you're a fucking moron. Fucking priceless. Have you ever stopped licking the balls of Alex Jones long enough to think critically about your crackpot theories? Utter twat.

[mikeoli]

@ScottishAtheist Who ever you are you a person who believes a gov't that lied you into Vietnam, bought you Hitler , Communism, and the cold war. The Taliban helped into power by America and now you believe they hate your freedom, maybe the 9 permanent military bases aroud the pipeline the Seven Sisters are building or is the rare earth minerals they have found or is it part of the Grand Chessboard, you seem like a smart person maybe you could enlighten , if you could stop licking your television

[mikeoli]

@ScottishAtheist Who ever you are you a person who believes a gov't that lied you into Vietnam, bought you Hitler , Communism, and the cold war. The Taliban helped into power by America and now you believe they hate your freedom, maybe the 9 permanent military bases aroud the pipeline the Seven Sisters are building or is the rare earth minerals they have found or is it part of the Grand Chessboard, you seem like a smart person maybe you could enlighten us

[MrMaverickOne]

Thanx TRNN for providing clearer picture...

[JohmScriv]

al qa'ida is a finger puppet ... the fingers are CIA, MI6, Mossad, ISI & GID

[westernciviliznation]

The Al Qaeda Franchise....in America, he's from California & his name is Adam Pearlman. A Jewish name? ...but he wears a turban, calls himself Adam Gadahm & urges all Arabs to buy arms at American gun shows, then kill everybody. Such a nice Jewish boy,

[btigtime2]

Al Qaeda is going to win this war. Prepare to live in chains.

[mushroomagicman]

"REAL" propaganda, Paul Jay should hang his duplicitous head in shame ... this should be called "The REAL wikileaks". Al who? Osama dead? with real news like this we don't need Fox news..it's redundant.

[911truthncDotOrg]

@mushroomagicman I mostly certainly 2nd that comment!!

[van1976]

I have yet to hear where Al queda get it's money from and where and who it buy it's munitions from--is it that big of a secret? Doesn't the money ever run out? No one ever investigates.

[jag10]

Al Qaeda was trained very well.

[JohmScriv]

AQ is the agent of western intelligence

[MustacheVerra]

Of course the Al-Qaeda has good strategist. That's because they really are the Mossad. What Israel want is to force the US into Pakistan to take away their nukes. The Israeli doesn't want any Muslim country to have nukes. They want to dominate the region and are using the US to do so. That's their angle.

What about Adam Pearlman-aka Adam Gadahn the leader of AL-Qaeda? The guy is a Jew and his father was a co-founder of the ADL, Paul?

watch?v=IGxfV4vabVA

I just cant trust the real news now.

[kawaiigardiner]

@MustacheVerra Oh for Christ sake, shove it up your ass - fucking conspiracy theories trying to wish away the fact that there are evil scumbags in the world who do actually want to destroy freedom and enlightenment values in favour of pulling the world back to 7th Century Arabian values.

[UNIVERSITYHI]

@kawaiigardiner Hey wake up to the Truman Show. Do you think ultra left wing radicals like Bernadine Dohrn and husband Bill Ayers would really support a centrist (actually right of center) Democrat President if they weren't blow up dolls? Or did they get soft in there old age. The whole thing is stage craft. Al Qaeda is just a CIA tool. Google "The Mighty Wurlitzer" and "Operation Mockingbird" and see how they lie to you.

[nilbud]

@UNIVERSITYHI It's your hysteria that sees those people as "ultra left wing". You're gullible, that's all.

[UNIVERSITYHI]

@nilbud Not gullible at all. I just know how things shake down. If McDonalds was out of fries you would know something is up because, from association, you know what to expect. As a life long registered Democrat, by association, I know there is no there, there. The Weather Underground was a criminal organization with an ultra left wing orientation. That is history not speculation. It was co opted and played by COINTELPRO. Just the way al Qaeda is played.

[rexx104]

@UNIVERSITYHI You are correct. The reason Bill Ayers got off was due to the fact they were being controlled by covert operations.

[UNIVERSITYHI]

@rexx104 Thanks for your support. I know for a fact that anything a hairs breadth left of say John F. Kennedy does not exist (without control) in this country. The only political discourse in this country is reactionary whining over trumped up wedge issues.

[MarioSavioTZM]

@kawaiigardiner You're free? Try bounce of somewhere with no money, see how free you are. The US, UK and compaany are dragging us down into neo-fuedalism. You may be one of the few who are middle class and treading water, but 2, and approaching 3 billion people on this planet, over a third, are malnourished and starving. Millions of those people live in America and Britain. What planet do you live on?

[XSilvenX]

@MarioSavioTZM Well said. 

[qualityrkc]

@kawaiigardiner they hate us for our freedoms?

[MustacheVerra]

@kawaiigardiner Nobody buy your Zionist propaganda. Go away fucking extremist. Israel has been caught many times dressed up as Arabs and blowing stuff up starting with the king David hotel in 1945 etc... it's a dirty trick some intelligence agency uses to manipulate public opinion. It's not a theory it's fact. And it works.

[zubairalihussain]

@kawaiigardiner i have to say, what you just commented is dangerously stupid.

[rexx104]

@kawaiigardiner Um did you even watch the vid? Just wondering.

[rexx104]

@kawaiigardiner I don't think anyone is trying to "wish away" facts except those who think were giving the whole truth by the major news corporations.

[Arrrz77]

RIP Syed Saleem Shazad. This was really informative.